The previous iteration of our website was a single-page React application—dark, flashy, and full of startup aesthetic clichés. It looked like a venture-funded tech startup trying to sell an app. But we are not a startup, we do not sell cloud subscriptions, and we have no corporate board.

Slobodna Energija is an open project hub, a community workshop, and a digital laboratory dedicated to practical energy sovereignty, open-hardware experimentation, and local-language speech tools. The website now completely reflects that mission: lean, fast, static, and transparent.

Static by Design, Git-Driven to the Core

The new platform is built with Pelican, generating pure, standards-compliant static HTML and CSS: - Plain Text in Git: Every project blueprint, sprout idea, dataset, and news dispatch lives as an ordinary Markdown file in our git repository. Proposing a technical correction or submitting a new experiment is as simple as opening a pull request. - Zero Database Vulnerabilities: There is no SQL database, no dynamic CMS to patch, no administrative logins, and no servers to crash under traffic. - Speed & Efficiency: The entire site renders in milliseconds on any browser, consumes negligible server resources, and can be hosted reliably from any static web server or a low-power off-grid Raspberry Pi.

Zero Third-Party Surveillance & Full Sovereignty

We practice the digital autonomy we advocate for in our hardware: - Self-Hosted Typography: Clean, beautifully rendered Manrope and Playfair Display typefaces (covering both Latin and Macedonian Cyrillic) are served directly from our own static server—clocking in at just 368 KB. Not a single request is made to Google Fonts. - Zero Tracking: No Google Analytics, no tracking pixels, no advertising beacons, and zero surveillance cookies. You do not need to click through cookie consent banners because we do not track you. - Transparent Targets: Every figure and indicator on our front page carries an explicit "TARGET" badge. We are focused on building tangible prototypes from the ground up, and we refuse to disguise forward-looking engineering roadmaps as completed results.

Interactive Demos Without Bloated Frameworks

Our interactive Macedonian voice synthesis and Whisper transcription demonstrations remain front and center, but they have been liberated from bulky framework dependencies: - Rebuilt using minimal, vanilla JavaScript, the demo widgets connect smoothly to local and demo endpoints. - No-Script Resilience: If JavaScript is turned off in your browser, the site remains 100% readable, accessible, and functional. You still receive the complete project story and technical specifications—just without interactive audio player buttons.

What Lies Ahead

Over the coming months, we will be replacing striped photo placeholders with real workbench photography, publishing open CAD files and circuit schematics, and streaming live telemetry from our first solar edge prototypes.

Explore the projects, clone the repository, and join us in building open community engineering for everyone.